{"id":8134,"date":"2018-12-11T17:51:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T17:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8134"},"modified":"2018-12-15T16:41:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T16:41:03","slug":"using-the-usgs-historical-topographic-map-explorer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8134","title":{"rendered":"Using the USGS Historical Topographic Map Explorer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8135\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/topousgs-one.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/topousgs-one.jpg 409w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/topousgs-one-278x300.jpg 278w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Visit:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/historicalmaps.arcgis.com\/usgs\/\">http:\/\/historicalmaps.arcgis.com\/usgs\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Type in the name of a location in the &#8220;find a place&#8221; box and pull down the appropriate place from the drop-down menu. Your map on the main part of your screen should then be centered on that location.<\/p>\n<p>Click somewhere in the map that just appeared and you will get a timeline of the maps that are available that include the location where you clicked your mouse. You can click on the map&#8217;s title to see it highlighted in the background.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll also get an option to download the map as a PDF file. Neat stuff.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-8137\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/topousgs-two-1024x502.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/topousgs-two-1024x502.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/topousgs-two-300x147.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/topousgs-two-768x376.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/topousgs-two.jpg 1408w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8136\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/topousgs-three-1024x504.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/topousgs-three-1024x504.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/topousgs-three-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/topousgs-three-768x378.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/topousgs-three.jpg 1464w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Visit:\u00a0http:\/\/historicalmaps.arcgis.com\/usgs\/ Type in the name of a location in the &#8220;find a place&#8221; box and pull down the appropriate place from the drop-down menu. Your map on the main part of your screen should then be centered on that location. Click somewhere in the map that just appeared and you will get a timeline [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}